FSRG Archived Working Papers

1980-1989 | 1990-1998

1974-1979

• Working Paper 1: An Institutional Approach to Vertical Coordination in Agriculture by Gerald Campbell and Thomas Clevenger
• Working Paper 2: Toward a Theory of Vertical Market Behaviour by Dennis Henderson (1975)
• Working Paper 3: Algorithms for Vertical Integration Indices by Thomas Sporleder (1975)
• Working Paper 4: Vertical Market Organization and the Structure-Profits Relationship by Thomas Clevenger and Gerald Campbell (1974)
• Working Paper 5: Production and Consumption Trends in the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Subsectors by John Schmelzer, Gerald Campbell, and Annie Yeun (1976)
• Working Paper 6: The Status of Competition in the Food Manufacturing and Food Retailing Industries by Russell Parker (1976)
• Working Paper 7: Application of the Structure, Conduct, Performance Paradigm to Subsector Analysis by Bruce Marion (1976)
• Working Paper 8: Design and Evaluation of a Simultaneous Auction for Slaughter Cattle by Ronald Raikes and Lynn Dippold (1977)
• Working Paper 9: An Analysis of the Impact of Collective Bargaining on Grower Prices and the Integrative Efficiency- A Case Study of the Ohio Concord Grape Industry by John Schmelzer and Dennis Henderson (1976)
• Working Paper 10: The Structure and Performance of Food Retailing by Bruce Marion and Willard Mueller (1977)
• Working Paper 11: The Social Control of Economic Power by Willard Mueller (1977)
• Working Paper 12: Vertical Coordination and Vertical Coordination Mechanisms: Analysis and Case Studies by Mahlon Lang (1977)
• Working Paper 13: Vertical Coordination Between Beef Cow/Calf Enterprises and Feedlots in the United States by Dennis Henderson and Robert Schwart (1977)
• Working Paper 14: Vertical Coordination of Cattle Feeding and Slaughtering in the Cattle and Beef Subsector by Clement Ward (1977)
• Working Paper 15: Measuring Market Performance: Quantifying the Non-Quantifiable by Edward Jesse (1978)
• Working Paper 16: A Risk-Processing Analysis of Cattle Procurement by Beef Packers by Katherine Miller and Ronald Raikes (1978)
• Working Paper 17: The Role of Advertising in Changing Concentration of Manufacturing Industries by Willard Mueller and Richard Rogers (1978)
• Working Paper 18: The Need for Vigorous Antitrust Enforcement by Willard Mueller (1978)
• Working Paper 19: Estimates of Consumer Loss Due to Monopoly in the U.S. Food Manufacturing Industries by Russell Parker and John Connor (1978)
• Working Paper 21: Government Regulation of Competition in the Food Industry by Bruce Marion (1978)
• Working Paper 22: Vertical Coordination in the Beef Industry Packer, Retailer and HRI Linkages by Marvin Hayenga (1978)
• Working Paper 23: Risk Management in Imperfect Markets: Commodity Procurement Strategy in the Food Marketing Sector by Marvin Hayenga (1978)
• Working Paper 24: Market Structure and Performance of US Multinationals in Brazil and Mexico by John Connor and Willard Mueller (1978)
• Working Paper 25: The Influence of Consumer Price Information on the Structure, Conduct and Performance of Food Retailing by D. Grant Devine and Bruce Marion (1978)
• Working Paper 26: Recent Developments in Agricultural Law by Dale Dahl (1979)
• Working Paper 27: The Capper-Volstead Exemption by Willard Mueller (1979)
• Working Paper 28: Federal Milk Marketing Orders by Willard Mueller (1979)
• Working Paper 29: Competition and the Role of the Largest Firms in the US Food and Tobacco Industries by John Connor (1979)
• Working Paper 30: Conglomeration and Consumer Loss in the Food Manufacturing Industries by Russell Parker and John Connor (1979)
• Working Paper 31: Conglomerate Mergers in the Food Industry by Willard Mueller (1979)
• Working Paper 32: Formula Pricing and Price Reporting Problems in the Markets for Beef and Pork by Marvin Hayenga (1979)
• Working Paper 33: The Impact of Firm Conglomeration on Market Structure by Ronald Cotterill and Willard Mueller (1979)
• Working Paper 34: Meat Marketing and Pricing- An Evaluation of Current and Proposed Systems by Clement Ward (1979)
• Working Paper 35: Some Considerations in the Application of Electronic Marketing to Meat by Dennis Henderson (1979)
• Working Paper 36: Advertising and Mergers in the Food Manufacturing Industries by Loys Mather (1979)
• Working Paper 37: Pork Pricing Systems: The Importance and Economic Impact of Formula Pricing by Marvin Hayenga (1979)
• Working Paper 38: Cheese Pricing Systems by Marvin Hayenga (1979)
• Working Paper 39: Commodity Pricing Systems: Issues and Alternatives ed. Marvin Hayenga (1979)
• Working Paper 40: Food System Organization and Performance: Toward a Conceptual Framework by James Shaffer (1979)

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1980-1989

• Working Paper 41: Food Product Proliferation: A Market Structure Analysis by John Connor (1980)
• Working Paper 42: Group Purchasing: An Analysis of Performance and Economics of Size in Preorder Food Cooperatives by Ronald Cotterill (1980)
• Working Paper 43: The Administered-Price Thesis: Literature Review and Methodological Discussion by Christina Kelton (1980)
• Working Paper 44: The Social Control of Private Economic Power by Willard Mueller (1980)
• Working Paper 45: Vertical Exchange Relationships and Performance in the Great Lakes Yellow Perch Industry by William Lesser (1980)
• Working Paper 46: Marketing Cooperatives and Undue Price Enhancement: A Theoretical Perspective by Edward Jesse and Aaron Johnson (1980)
• Working Paper 47: The Influence of Market Structure on Technological Performance in the Food Manufacturing Industries by John Culberston and Willard Mueller (1980)
• Working Paper 48: Auction Pricing: Options and Implications by Lee Schrader and Dennis Henderson (1980)
• Working Paper 50: Exchange Performance Contrasted Between Coordinated and Spot Markets by Richard Kilmer and Ronald Ward (1980)
• Working Paper 51: Interpreting and Enforcing Section 2 of the Capper-Volstead Act by Edward Jesse, Aaron Johnson and Bruce Marion (1981)
• Working Paper 52: Conglomerates: A "Nonindustry" by Willard Mueller (1981)
• Working Paper 53: The Anti-Trust Movement by Willard Mueller (1981)
• Working Paper 54: Environmental and Structural Characteristics of the Dairy Subsector by Hugh Cook and Marvin Hayenga (1981)
• Working Paper 55: The Changing Economic Structure and Behavior of the Swine Breeding Stock Market by Marvin Hayenga, David Boyd and Lauren Christian (1981)
• Working Paper 56: The Commercial Foodservice Sector: Trends in Growth and Market Structure by John Schmelzer (1981)
• Working Paper 57: The Policy Interpretation of Econometric Tests of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis by John Culbertson (1981)
• Working Paper 58: The Impact of Food Distributor Procurement Practices on Food System Structure and Coordination by Larry Hamm (1981)
• Working Paper 59: Analyzing the Prices from a Vertical Exchange Mechanism: An Implicit Price Approach by Ella Kay Carl and Richard Kilmer (1981)
• Working Paper 60: The Effect of Market Structure on Price Change for Food Manufacturing Product Classes by Christina Kelton (1982)
• Working Paper 61: Public Policy and Economic Power: The American Antitrust Laws and Some International Comparisons by Willard Mueller (1982)
• Working Paper 62: Electronic Markets for Agricultural Commodities: Potentials and Pitfalls by Dennis Henderson (1982)
• Working Paper 63: Food Conglomerates by Willard Mueller (1982)
• Working Paper 64: Retailer-Manufacturer Relationships in the Food Sector- Some Observations from the U.S.A. by Larry Hamm (1982)
• Working Paper 65: The Effect of Market Share Distribution on Industry Performance-Reexamined by Willard Mueller and Douglas Greer (1982)
• Working Paper 66: Ownership of Electronic Commodity Exchanges by David Holder, Allen Paul, and Thomas Sporleder (1982)
• Working Paper 67: Foreign Investment in US Food Retailing Industry: Source Countries, Causal Forces and Consequences by Bruce Marion and Howard Nash (1982)
• Working Paper 68: Political Support for Farmer Cooperatives by Geir Isaksen (1983)
• Working Paper 69: Changes in Market Concentration of Manufacturing Industries, 1947-1977 by Willard Mueller and Richard Rogers (1983)
• Working Paper 70: Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment by Food and Tobacco Manufacturers by John Connor (1983)
• Working Paper 71: Benefit Analysis of Selected Slaughterhouse Meat Inspection Practices by Tanya Roberts (1983)
• Working Paper 72: Operational Efficiency in Food and Tobacco Manufacturing by Christina Kelton (1983)
• Working Paper 73: Food Manufacturing Activities of 100 Large Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives by Robert Combs and Bruce Marion (1984)
• Working Paper 75: A Structure-Price-Cost Margin Model Estimated Over Time for Food and Tobacco Product Classes, 1954 to 1977 by Richard Rogers (1985)
• Working Paper 76: A Comparison of Price Enhancement Practices of Cooperative and Proprietary Brands by Robert Wills (1984)
• Working Paper 77: Advertising and Quality as Sources of Price Heterogeneity Among Brands of Food Products by Robert Wills (1984)
• Working Paper 78: Alleged Predatory Conduct in Food Retailing by Willard Mueller (1984)
• Working Paper 79: State Sales-Below-Cost Laws: An Econometric Analysis of Effectiveness by Thomas Paterson and Willard Mueller (1984)
• Working Paper 80: State Sales-Below-Cost Laws: A Legal-Economic Analysis of Effectiveness by Thomas Paterson and Willard Mueller (1984)
• Working Paper 81: Strategic Groups, Entry Barriers and Competitive Behavior in Grocery Retailing by Bruce Marion (1984)
• Working Paper 82: Clarifying the Rights of Farmers to Seek Damages in Antitrust Actions by Willard Mueller (1984)
• Working Paper 83: Modern Markets and Market Power: Evidence from the Vermont Retail Food Industry by Ronald Cotterill (1984)
• Working Paper 84: Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives and Section 1 of the Capper-Volstead Act: Conditioning (Limited) Antitrust Immunity on Capper-Volstead Policy by Thomas Paterson and Willard Mueller (1984)
• Working Paper 85: Sherman Section 2 Monopolization for Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives by Thomas Paterson and Willard Mueller (1984)
• Working Paper 86: Predatory Pricing and the Reconstituted Lemon Juice Industry by David Rosenbaum (1985)
• Working Paper 87: Economic Organization of the US Feed Manufacturing Industry by Marvin Hayenga, Steve Meyer and Phillip Hamilton (1985)
• Working Paper 88: The Union Impact on Profits: Evidence from the Supermarket Industry by Paula Voos and Lawrence Mishel (1985)
• Working Paper 89: The Impact of Packer Buyer Concentration on Live Cattle Prices by Gwen Quail, Bruce Marion, Frederick Geithman and Jeffrey Marquardt (1986)
• Working Paper 90: The New Attack on Antitrust by Willard Mueller (1986)
• Working Paper 91: Food Retailing and Wholesaling in the United States: Organization, Trends, and Competition by Bruce Marion (1988)
• Working Paper 92: Restructuring of Meat Packing Industries: Implications for Farmers and Consumers by Bruce Marion (1988)
• Working Paper 93: The Effects of Warehouse and Super Warehouse Grocery Stores on Metropolitan Area Food Prices by Keith Heimforth and Bruce Marion (1988)

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1990-1998

• Working Paper 94: Public Policy Implications of Recent Changes in the Livestock Industry by Willard Mueller (1990)
• Working Paper 95: Concentration Change in the Selected Food Manufacturing Industries: The Influence of Mergers v. Internal Growth by Bruce Marion and Donghwan Kim (1990)
• Working Paper 96: Monopsony Power in an Industry in Disequilibrium: Beef Packing, 1971-1986 by Bruce Marion, Frederick Geithman and Gwen Quail (1990)
• Working Paper 97: An Empirical Test of the Free Rider and Market Power Hypothesis by Willard Mueller and Frederick Geithman (1991)
• Working Paper 98: Price Fixing Does Raise Prices in the Baking Industry by Willard Mueller and Russell Parker (1991)
• Working Paper 99: Strategic Groups, Competition and Retail Food Prices by Bruce Marion, Keith Heimforth and Wiltse Bailey (1991)
• Working Paper 101: US Competitiveness in World Markets: What is the Relationship to US Antitrust Policies? by Bruce Marion (1991)
• Working Paper 102: Cyclical Variation in the Concentration-Profit Relationship: Significance for Line of Business Studies by Willard Mueller and Maqbool Sial (1991)
• Working Paper 103: The 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: A Brief Critique by Willard Mueller and Kevin O'Connor (1992)
• Working Paper 104 (Rev): Concentration-Price Relations in Regional Fed Cattle Markets by Bruce Marion and Frederick Geithman (1993)
• Working Paper 105: Competition in the US Food Marketing Industries: Some Lessons from the 1980s by Bruce Marion (1994)
• Working Paper 106: Market Competition and the Crucible of Pain and Pressure: Some Preliminary Thoughts by Bruce Marion (1994)
• Working Paper 107: An Evaluation of Price Linkages Between Futures and Cash Markets for Cheddar Cheese by T. Randall Fortenbery and Hector Zapata (1995)
• Working Paper 108: Changing the Power Relationships in the US Food Industry: Brokerage Arrangements for Private Label Products by Bruce Marion (1995)
• Working Paper 109: Domestic Market Structure and Performance in Global Markets: Theory and Empirical Evidence from US Food Manufacturing Industries by Donghwan Kim and Bruce Marion (1995)
• Working Paper 110: Competition in Grocery Retailing: The Impact of a New Strategic Group on BLS Price Increases by Bruce Marion and Cinthia Mazo (1995)
• Working Paper 111: Competition and Trade Practice Policies: An Overview by Bruce Marion (1996)
• Working Paper 112(Rev): Price Leadership on the National Cheese Exchange by Willard Mueller, Bruce Marion and Maqbool Sial (1996)
• Working Paper 113: Measuring Effects of Domestic Market Structure on Trade Performance: An Application of Error Correction Model to the US Beer Industry by Donghwan Kim and Bruce Marion (1996)
• Working Paper 114: Responses to Hearing Testimony and Subcommittee Members' Questions by Willard Mueller and Bruce Marion (1996)
• Working Paper 115: Practices Facilitating Manipulation of Prices on the National Cheese Exchange by Willard Mueller and Bruce Marion (1997)
• Working Paper 116: Price and Profit Performance of Leading Cheese Marketers: Some New Evidence by Willard Mueller and Bruce Marion (1998)

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